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"Any activities you dislike in particular? Reading a book, say? I couldn't make us something to eat in the mindpalace kitchen?" he suggested.
"Any activities you dislike in particular? Reading a book, say? I couldn't make us something to eat in the mindpalace kitchen?" he suggested.
"Sure."
"I suppose it's one-word answers day then, is it? Roman, tell me what's wrong. I know you get insecure about your work, being the ego after all, but you aren't functioning correctly. And disbelieve me, I can tell when something is wrong." Deceit said seriously.
"I don't even know what's going on. I've just somehow lost all of my creativity…" Roman explained.
"That's impossible. First Virgil ends up not doing his job properly, Patton goes all existential crisis, and now you?" Deceit was too angry to lie about anything at this point. Nothing was going the way he had planned, it was turning the exact opposite of his agenda.
"I don't know what's going on! I've told you! I don't know why it's happening!" Roman said.
"Calm down now, dearest Prince of mine." he caressed the side of Roman's face with a gloved hand. It was strangely foreign, but in the sort of surprising way where you find something in a foreign place that's strangely familiar to your own home. "We're friends, or at least, two sides working towards the same goal. And I won't promise that we'll fix this, okay?"
"Okay," Roman said.
"Hey, chin up. It won't get better." Deceit lifted Roman's face a little. Logan suddenly walked in. "Deceit!" he shouted, so loudly that probably everyone had heard it wherever they were in the mindscape. "Ahem. Rude." Deceit said.
"Logan, he's not doing anything wrong," Roman said.
Logan gave out a bout of fake coughing. When he stopped, "Roman. Deceit isn't doing anything wrong? Deceit? The despicable, lying, manipulative side?" Logan asked bitterly. Deceit seemed a little shocked at Logan, at his uncharacteristic rage.
"I'm not kidding. For once he's doing nothing wrong," Roman said.
"He has an agenda! You know how he manipulated you in the courtroom scene! You're the most vulnerable of all of us because you just can't say no to a few nice words. Ever since he first appeared in person to Thomas, you were absolutely gushing over him! Well I'm done! All he's done is cause hurt and drama and chaos, and I won't have it!" Logan would have gone on, but he had wasted so much breath yelling that he had to take a second and breathe in and out, slowly. "Well if I'm the villain, as you say…" Deceit began slowly.
"I swear we're all falling apart," Roman said.
"Quiet, Roman!" Deceit seemed to have snapped, you could feel anger pouring off of him. He forced Roman to stay quiet, making Roman clap his own hand to his mouth. Deceit walked towards Logan, positively flaming. "If I am the villain then, so. Be. It." he shoved Logan out of the way and stormed off, making it turn out surprisingly more anticlimactic than anticipated. "Roman, how could you trust him?" Logan said softly, unusual for him and an emotional gut-punch for anyone he used the tone with.
"I honestly don't know. I don't know much of anything anymore, what's going on, why I do some things I do. It's all just become a mess!" Roman said.
"Well, you should know better. I suppose it's best you leave the reasonable ones in charge for now, hmm? I'll piece together something for Thomas to use, you just leave him and us alone for now." Logan said, adjusting his glasses. "You've already caused enough trouble." and with that he walked off.
Roman sighed. He really had no clue what was going on anymore. Him and the others had just been off lately. He never thought it'd reach the point it had just reached, though. He didn't think it'd go so far as to where he can't even do his job properly. At this point, being in a way useless at the moment, he decided he'd just be alone for a while.
Virgil ran to Patton whenever he needed help, whenever he was having a panic attack, needed some advice, or just needed someone to be there. And he needed him now. "Patton!" he knocked a little overly enthusiastically on the side's door. "Patton, there's an emergency!"
Patton opened the door immediately after hearing that. "What is it?"
"Something's wrong with Logan and Roman and Deceit keeps showing up and everything keeps getting, getting, ruined, and I'm not sure what to do and Thomas keeps on getting worse and-" Virgil paused for breath, "I think we should call a meeting. We need to talk this out, Thomas needs us but everything just keeps on getting… ruined." he said.
"I agree. Also, what's going on with them? Do you have any idea? How bad has it gotten? We're having a meeting right now. I want everything and everyone to be okay," Patton said.
"There was shouting and I went to check on them but Logan just stormed past me… Patton, I don't know what to do…" don't cry don't cry don't cry don't cry… well, that's that plan ruined. Virgil burst into ugly sobbing.
Patton hugged him. "It's okay. They'll all be okay. We'll figure this out somehow and get everyone back to normal."
"Okay…" Virgil hated to be dependant on anyone, but Patton was the parent to all the sides, and it did help to talk to him. Not that Virgil would admit that he liked it, but Patton probably knew by now. "Let's get everyone together." he sniffled, tears subsiding.
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